This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.7.1 release. There are 41 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. Responses should be made by Tue Aug 16 20:25:22 UTC 2016. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.7.1-rc1.gz or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.7.y and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, greg k-h ------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Linux 4.7.1-rc1 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: fix reference counting bug on block allocation error Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: short-cut orphan cleanup on error Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> ext4: validate s_reserved_gdt_blocks on mount Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: don't call ext4_should_journal_data() on the journal inode Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> ext4: fix deadlock during page writeback Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: check for extents that wrap around Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> serial: mvebu-uart: free the IRQ in ->shutdown() Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: scatterwalk - Fix test in scatterwalk_done Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> crypto: gcm - Filter out async ghash if necessary Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@xxxxxxxx> Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency" Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx> fs/dcache.c: avoid soft-lockup in dput() Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Revert "mm, mempool: only set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if there are free elements" Wei Fang <fangwei1@xxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fix wrong assignment of ->flags in fuse_send_init() Maxim Patlasov <mpatlasov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fuse_flush must check mapping->flags for errors Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> fuse: fsync() did not return IO errors Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/power/64: Fix hibernation return address corruption Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> x86/microcode: Fix suspend to RAM with builtin microcode Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> radix-tree: account nodes to memcg only if explicitly requested Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> sysv, ipc: fix security-layer leaking Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> block: fix use-after-free in seq file David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> x86/syscalls/64: Add compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: memcontrol: fix memcg id ref counter on swap charge move Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mm: memcontrol: fix swap counter leak on swapout from offline cgroup Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> random: strengthen input validation for RNDADDTOENTCNT John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> apparmor: fix ref count leak when profile sha1 hash is read Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> IB/hfi1: Disable by default David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> KEYS: 64-bit MIPS needs to use compat_sys_keyctl for 32-bit userspace Dave Weinstein <olorin@xxxxxxxxxx> arm: oabi compat: add missing access checks Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@xxxxxxxxxx> tcp: consider recv buf for the initial window scale Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@xxxxxxxxxx> macsec: ensure rx_sa is set when validation is disabled Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@xxxxxxxxxx> qed: Fix setting/clearing bit in completion bitmap Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> net/sctp: terminate rhashtable walk correctly Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> net/irda: fix NULL pointer dereference on memory allocation failure Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> sctp: fix BH handling on socket backlog Mike Manning <mmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> net: ipv6: Always leave anycast and multicast groups on link down Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> bridge: Fix incorrect re-injection of LLDP packets Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> net/bonding: Enforce active-backup policy for IPoIB bonds Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> udp: use sk_filter_trim_cap for udp{,6}_queue_rcv_skb Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> vfs: fix deadlock in file_remove_privs() on overlayfs Scott Bauer <sbauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> vfs: ioctl: prevent double-fetch in dedupe ioctl Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxxx> ext4: verify extent header depth ------------- Diffstat: Documentation/cpu-freq/pcc-cpufreq.txt | 4 +- Makefile | 4 +- arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c | 8 +++- arch/mips/kernel/scall64-n32.S | 2 +- arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S | 2 +- arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/microcode.h | 2 - arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c | 3 +- arch/x86/mm/init.c | 7 ---- arch/x86/power/hibernate_asm_64.S | 4 +- block/genhd.c | 1 + crypto/gcm.c | 4 +- crypto/scatterwalk.c | 3 +- drivers/char/random.c | 13 +++--- drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c | 2 - drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 11 ++++- drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_spq.c | 7 ++-- drivers/net/macsec.c | 3 +- drivers/tty/serial/mvebu-uart.c | 2 + fs/dcache.c | 7 +++- fs/ext4/balloc.c | 3 ++ fs/ext4/extents.c | 12 +++++- fs/ext4/inode.c | 35 +++++++++++++--- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 17 ++------ fs/ext4/super.c | 17 ++++++++ fs/fuse/file.c | 24 +++++++++++ fs/fuse/inode.c | 2 +- fs/inode.c | 8 ++-- fs/ioctl.c | 1 + ipc/msg.c | 2 +- ipc/sem.c | 12 +++--- lib/radix-tree.c | 14 +++++-- mm/memcontrol.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------ mm/mempool.c | 18 ++------ net/bridge/br_input.c | 8 ++++ net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 3 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 4 +- net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 4 ++ net/ipv6/udp.c | 4 +- net/irda/af_irda.c | 7 +++- net/sctp/input.c | 2 + net/sctp/inqueue.c | 2 - net/sctp/socket.c | 1 + security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 1 + 45 files changed, 245 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html